Debian Bug report logs - #623562
please provide generic file completion for $command

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: /etc/bash_completion.d/sh: please provide simple file completion for sh

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:08:26 +0200

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:1.3-1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/bash_completion.d/sh

Hello,

some time ago our system admin updated our development server and since
then one of my workflows became harder. It's like the following:

do that once:
	$ echo "very complicated build command" > refresh
	$ echo "yet another command" >> refresh

and then I just call

	sh refresh

to get things going.

With the current bash completion

	sh ref<tab>

doesn't complete ref to refresh though the match is unique.
For now I'm adding

	complete -r sh

in my .bashrc which makes the completion work for me again.

Best regards
Uwe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
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bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 623562@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>

To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Cc: 623562@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#623562: /etc/bash_completion.d/sh: please provide simple file completion for sh

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:08:13 +0200

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tags 623562 wontfix upstream
retitle 623562 please provide generic file completion for $command
thanks

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:08:26 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> [..]
> With the current bash completion
> 
> 	sh ref<tab>
> 
> doesn't complete ref to refresh though the match is unique.
> For now I'm adding
> 
> 	complete -r sh
> 
> in my .bashrc which makes the completion work for me again.

"sh" is completing on .sh files. So just call your script "refresh.sh".

With my upstream hat on, I'm tagging this as wontfix.

Almost no unix command takes care of file extensions, but only of their
contents. If I accepted your bug, I could just complete on filenames for any
command -- and there would be no need of bash-completion (apart from
non-filename-completions), because plain bash already does this ;)

Kindly,
David

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Message #19 received at 623562@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch@gmail.com>

To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>, 623562@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#623562: /etc/bash_completion.d/sh: please provide simple file completion for sh

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:20:36 +0200

Le 21/04/2011 11:08, Uwe Kleine-König a écrit :
> With the current bash completion
> 
> 	sh ref<tab>
> 
> doesn't complete ref to refresh though the match is unique.
> For now I'm adding
> 
> 	complete -r sh
> 
> in my .bashrc which makes the completion work for me again.
Note you can always force raw filename completion, using alt + /,
bypassing any programmable completion. The same is true for all other
builtin completions types, as described in READLINE section of bash(1).

possible-filename-completions (C-x /)
	List the possible completions of the text before
	point, treating it as a filename.
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